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Howard Hughes

Date: 1932
Description: Howard Hughes on the set of "Sky Devils," a comedy about World War I aviation that starred Spencer Tracy. Hughes reused many of the airplanes he obtained f...
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Long Voyage Home Marquee

Date: 1940
Description: View down sidewalk towards people standing in a line outside a movie theater showing the film The Long Voyage Home. Many people are holding umbrella...
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"Blockade" Blankets Havana

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Description: Movie theater marquee in Havana, Cuba advertising the 1938 film "Blockade" starring Henry Fonda. There is a man dressed in white standing on the sidewalk b...
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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph

Date: 10 1940
Description: Charlie Chaplin grinning and shaking hands with a man in a dark suit. They are at an airfield next to a plane. Perhaps this is Chaplin's arrival for the Ne...
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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph

Date: 10 15 1940
Description: Crowds gather under the marquee of the Capitol Theatre for the New York premiere of Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" the evening of October 15, 1940....

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